The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-30
LEBANON. OREGON. SATURDAY. 80, 1887

ciously made into pie, it is considered
equal to any rabbit, under the same
cond tions. ever bred on the Sussex
downs. But. strange to say. the Es lui-
mau dogs. which win devour almost
every thing else, will not touch fox.
Cats and dogs readily find purchasers
and consumers in China. whore they
aie hung up in the butchers shops, to-
gether with badgers tasting like wild
boar-and other oddities of food.
In the South Seas. too, a dog Is
favorite dish. and puppy stew is n
royal feast in Zanzibar; bu. IL is olly
fair to say that where a dog is eaten It
Is especially fattened for the table and
fed only on milk and such like cleanly
diet. The Australian native dog, or
dingo, is eaten by the blacks, but by no
one else; and South African viii give
a COW for good sized mastiff. The
American panther and the wildcat of
Louis'an are said TO be excellent eat
ing; so is the puma, which is SO like
veal in navor that one hardly knows
the difference. Lions flesh. too, is
almost identical with veal in color,
taste and texture. Bears paws were
long German delioacy. and the flesh
is held equal or superior to pork, the
fat being IA whito as snow. The
tongue and hams are cured. but the
head is accounted worthless and
thrown away. The badger tastes
like wild boar. The Australian
kangaroo is not much inferior to
venison. and kangaroo-tail soup is bet
ter than half the messes which pass in
London under the name of oxtail
soup. flashed wallaby is n dish 20
one need dislain. and there is a small
species of kangaroo as good as any
hare ever cooked. An Austral an nat
tive banquet is an odd mixture. Kan
garoo and wallaby. opossums and hy-
ing squirrels, kangaroo rats, wombats
and bandicoots represent the pieces de
resistance, while rats. mice, snakes.
snails, large white maggots. worms
and grubs form the little dishes and
most favored entrees. A nice. fat
marmot is a treat-why not? They
are quite pure feeders.
The muskrat of Martinique is eaten.
though indescribably loathsOme to 4
European; but the slick rats of the su
gar cane plantations make one of the
most delicate fricassees imaginable, 50
tend r. plump. cleanly and luscious
are they The Chinese are in a rat
paradise in California, where the rats
are enormously large. highly Favored
aud very abundant. rat-sOup being
considered by all right minded Celes-
tials to beat ox-tail or gravy soup hol-
low The Indians eat the beaver.
which IS said to be like pork. and D II
cupine il a fine favorite with the Dutch
and Hottentots of the Cape. and with
the Hudson Bay trappeFs and, indeed.
with all the inhabitants of the countries
where the creature is found. the flesh
being good and delcate. and. more
over, accounted exceedingly nutritious
Elephants feet. picked in strong
toddE vinegar and cayenne pepper. are
considered in Ceylon an Apician lux
urv. The trunk is said to resemble
bu1alo's hump. aud the fat Is 50 highly
priced by the Bushmen that they will
90 almost any distance for it Hippo
D tamus fat is also considered treat.
When salted it is thought superior to
our breakfast bacon. and the flesh is
both palatable and muir tious. the fat
being used for all the ordinary uses of
butter. Birds are of large Importance
in the supplies of human food, and not
only birds. but birds nests as well. at
least with the Chinese, whose dainties
are always peculiar. These nests are
brought from Java and Sumatra and
are like lib ,ous, ill-coneocted isinglass,
inclning II red about the size of
goose's egg and as thick as a silver
spoon. When dry they are brittle and
wrinkled and worth twice their weight
| in silver. This nest, which is of the
sea swallow (Hirundo esculenta). is the
only edible one known. Many are the
| delicious morscls Afforded by birds.
| rhe heceaiico in the fir season; the
bronze winged pigeon of Australia.
when the acacia seeds are ripe; the
Young. fat hideous diablotin or goat
sucker. il taken when atender nesting,
aud the same bird, when older. il taken
when the palms are in fru t; the rice
bird, of South Carolina. when the rice
is ripen ny; and the ortolan, mere lump
Of idealized fat that it is these are
among the most celebrated of the
smaller tid-bits, not forgetting the
snipe. the quail and the woodoock of
our own land.
Some people cat insects. the grub of
the palm weevil being held in much
favor in the East and West Indies. and
the grubs of most beetles in some other
quarters of the glole. The Moors think
fine, fat locust superior even to
pigeon. and the Hottentots make soup
of their eggs. The thrifty Chinese iirst
Wluu Oh Ilt CoGOOus anu thtu SOilu eh
chrysalis of the silk-worm to the table.
Spiders are delicacies of the desert
kind to the Bushmeu. snails also hav-
ing many partisans. The Chinese
gloat over sea slug or beche de mer,
and dish of a certain sea worm is one
of the events of life to the dwellers in
the islands of the South Seas. The peo
pie of Chill eat barnacles as we eat
whelks. and the Hottentots devoul
handfuls of roasted caterpillars, which
taste like sugared cream or almond
paste, and stand to them in the place
Of sugar plums and comfits. What s
blessing il would be if we could persuade
our rising population to exchange sweet
meats and lozenges for nice young
caterpillars roasted in the ashes! Thinl
how the farmers would gain by the ex
changel-Hoalsehold Word.
A Hint to Girs.
Il Al.